10 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Genus PODILYMBUS Lesson 



PodilymbtiS Lesson, Traite d'Orn., livr. 8, June 11, 1831, p. 595. Type, by 

 monotypy, Podiccps caroliiicnsis Latham = Colyinbits podiceps Linnaeus, 



Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus) : Pied-billed Grebe ^ 



Colymbus Podiceps Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 136. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Itchtucknee River, Columbia County, and Haile, Alachua 

 County, Florida. Late Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon; Rancho 

 La Brea, Los Angeles, and McKittrick, Kern County, California. 

 Late Pleistocene or early Recent : Tepexpan, Mexico. 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES : Albatrosses, Shearwaters, 

 Petrels, and Allies 



Family DIOMEDEIDAE: Albatrosses 



Genus DIOMEDEA Linnaeus 



Diomedia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 132. Type, by subse- 

 quent designation, Diomedca cxnlans Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Diomedea albatrus Pallas : Short-tailed Albatross 



Diomedca albatrus Pallas, Spic. Zool., vol. i, fasc. 5, 17C9, p. 28. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene (Palos Verdes sand) : 

 Newport Bay, Orange County, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, 

 California. 



Diomedea anglica Lvdekker 



Diomedea anglica Lvdekker, Cat. Foss. Birds Brit. Mus., 1891, p. 189, fig. 42. 

 Pliocene (Bone Valley formation) : Pierce, Polk County, Florida.^ 



Family PROCELLARIIDAE : Shearwaters and Fulmars 



Genus PUFFINUS Brisson 1° 



Puffimts Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 56; vol. 6, p. 130. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Puffinus Brisson z= Proccllaria puffinus Briinnich. 



^ Podilymbus magnus Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, art. 

 6, July 9, 1913, p. 136, pi. 38, figs. 439-440, 449, has been identified as F. podiceps 

 by Wetmore, California Acad. Sci., vol. 23, Dec. 30, 1937, pp. 198-199. 



° Described by Lydckker from the Upper Pliocene at Foxhall, Suffolk, Eng- 

 land. Recorded from Florida by Wetmore, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

 vol. 22, June 23, 1943, pp. 66-67, pl- 12, figs. 10-15. 



^° Puffinus parz'us Shufeldt, Ibis, October 1916, p. 632, from Recent deposits 

 in the bone caves of Bermuda is considered a synonym of Puffinus Ihcrminieri. 

 Puffinus mcgalli Shufeldt, Ibis, October 1916, p. 630, from Recent deposits in the 

 bone caves of Bermuda seemingly is Puffinus puffinus. 



